3r)() TRocnn.T. 



end : the intermediate rectrices appear to be wholly wanting ; bill 

 black. Total length to the end of the longest under tail-coverts 

 about 5 inches, wing 1*55 ; tail, longest rectrices about 5-5 ; bill 0-7. 



Female. Upper surface shining grass-green, darker and more 

 bronzy on the crown ; under surface white, the sides of the neck 

 and flanks with shining green discal spots : central rectrices green 

 like the back ; remainder graduated, steel-blue, grey at the base, the 

 outermost pair having the webs reduced in width for about three- 

 fourths of their length, and then expanding so as to form a small 

 spatule. 



Young male. Similar to the female, but an elongated pair of under 

 tail-coverts ; the central pair of r'ectrices shorter, the three inter- 

 mediate ones on either side not visible, the outermost pair straight, 

 with the webs narrower than in the female, and the spatule larger. 

 The glittering feathers of the throat appear before those of the 

 crown. 



Hah. Central Peru. 



n. S ad. ; b. 5 Taniiapampa, Peru, Nov. (J. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



ad. sk. Stolzmanji). 



c. (S juv. sk. Chachapoyas, Peru, Nov. [J. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Stolzmann). 



100. CEPHALOLEPIS. 



Type. 



Cephallepis, Lodd. P. Z. S. 1830, p. 12 C. delalandi. 



CepbaloIepi.«, Cah. ^ Heine, Mns. Hein. iii. p. 61 C. delalandi. 



Ilntu/e. Brazil. 



Keij to the Species. 



a. Crown glittering grass-green delalandi, p. 356. 



h. Crown glittering violet-blue loddigesi, p. 357. 



1 . Cephalolepis delalandi. 



Trochilus delalandi, Tieill. X. Did. d'Hist. N. xxiii. p. 427 ; id. 



i:-nc. Meth. p. 558 ; Temm. PI. Col. 18. ff. 1, 2; Sw. Birds Bras. 



pi. 22 ; Less. Ind. Gen. Troch. p. xxix ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. 



p. 148. 

 Trochilus versicolor, Yieill. N. Did. cVHist. N. xxiii. p. 430 ; id. Enc. 



Meth. p. 560. 

 Cephallepis delalandi, Lodd. P. Z. S. 1830, p. 12 ; Mids. Hist. Nat. 



Ois.-Mouches, iii. p. 187, pi. 88 ; id. Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, xxii. 



p. 222. 

 Ornismya delalandi. Less. Hist. Nat. Ois.-Monches, pp. xxxviii, 95, 



pi. 23 ; id. Suppl. Ois.-Mouches, p. 136, pi. 19. 

 Cephalepis lalandi, Bp. Consp. Av. i. p. 83 ; id. Rev. Zool. 1854, 



p. 256. 

 Orihorhvnchus y. Cephalepis delalandi, Beich. Atifz. d. Col. p. 12; 



id. Troch. JEnum. p. 9, pi. 808. ft'. 4880-3. 

 Cephalepis delalandi, Gould, Mon. Troch. pi. 208 (Oct. 1854) ; id. 



Intr. Troch. -p. 118. 

 Orthorhynchus delalandi, Burm. Syst. Ueh. ii. p. .351. 



